Cribsheet 14.10.11

On your mark ... take their place in the score of a level

Michael Gove

announced yesterday that his A-levels reorganization will be the culmination of a series of high-grade A * was a big surprise. More disconcerting, however, is the idea of ??a national ranking of student achievement, the placement of all candidates for national classification level.

What a beautiful message to send to young people. As if getting their A-levels and university place was not sufficiently charged, we will make the race between you and your colleagues insanely competitive

In his speech to Ofqual, the education secretary said that university students ranked individual classification may help to select the brightest students. This suggests that the star had fallen on students in each subject across the country - and that other students had passed. Great if you are in the top 100. Less exciting if you are sensitive to the number 89462

Gove

To give due course, he acknowledged that it might be a little too far. As reported by The Guardian Jeevan Vasagar:

Gove said it could be a "totally false" idea. "But I is specifically for the debate."

Burlington Danes Academy

visit described in west London, which publishes the ranking of students at the end of each quarter. "When I asked the center's director, Sally Coates, if it was not a little - please excuse my expression - 'hardcore', and led to a revolt among the students and parents, she looked at me said, "In fact, it's the popular thing I've done." Parents love it because it gives them the information that had previously been denied. "

The only thing worse than a competitive production of 18 parents likely competition. At least noisy hall parents have already expressed their opposition to the idea, on the basis that it would be especially nice for children. Ideas and tweets @ warwickmansell Gove to "look a little gimmicky." He agreed.

Education

More news from The Guardian

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. Academy head Sir Michael Wilshaw, credited with transforming a failing school in East London at the High Performance Academy Mossbourne, has been appointed new head of Ofsted.

. Education cuts to services such as the granting of the achievement of ethnic minorities affected the most vulnerable, writes former teacher Emma Jones.

. There is no "slam-dunk" case, says Michael Gove, for teaching foreign languages ??to five years, and schools lack the resources to these lessons, writing teachers Fiona Copland and Sue Garton.

. The board primary apologized to parents after a message on Facebook, apparently posted by a teacher, described the locals as pure.

. Teenagers need to learn about sex, then there should be no possibility to choose the types of personal services, health and social writes Libby Brooks.

Education

News around the web

. Private schools are working on plans to sponsor non-state primary schools, reports from TES, while plans are state boarding supported by Eton, reports The Independent.

. Abolition of the EMA has had a mixed impact on enrollment rates in education, the reports of the TES.

. Children learned to read another seven years to learn at the same pace in four years, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Warwick, literacy compared with Steiner schools normal education, publishing the results in the British Journal of Educational Psychology.

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teacher training seminars

The Guardian Teacher Network organizes training sessions for teachers throughout the year in Yorkshire and London. Upcoming courses include:

think your school become an academy?

This seminar will provide an independent view on the advantages and disadvantages of converting the status of the academy. We will see in the conversion process, the implications of the state of academia, and the support and funding available. November 30 in London. February 21, 2012 in Yorkshire

protect young people in the digital age

led by experts from the school of digital security, this one-day course will provide updates protection policies and Ofsted criteria and look at the social media which offers practical advice to help your school to develop its policies in digital security. February 1, 2012 in London. February 8, 2012 in Yorkshire.